Title:
Cutting from a Gradual
Maker:
; production
Collection:
Charles Brinsley Marlay
Category:
illuminated manuscript
Name(s):
cutting; sub-category
gradual; type of text
Date:
circa 1510 — circa 1520
Period:
sixteenth century, first quarter
Description:
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 145 x 145 mm, fragmentary words and four-line staves ruled in black ink (one of the lines ruled in red as well) on reverse,
DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of acanthus, fish-scale motifs, and masks on framed, recessed blue-green grounds: [S, 2 ll.] St Bernard’s vision of the Virgin and Child (Miracle of the Lactation).
Production
Place:
Germany, Southern Germany, Nüremberg, probably Nüremberg
Production
Place (legacy):
Southern Germany, production, region
Nüremberg, place
Technique:
illumination; whole
Material(s):
parchment; support
gold; medium
Dimension(s):
height, page, 145, mm
width, page, 145, mm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1912; Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Associated
Person:
Marlay, Charles Brinsley; previous owner
Notes:
Marlay cuttings Fl 6 – 8: Six cuttings from a Gradual. The elongated, compressed and spiky character of the script, the so-called horseshoe notation, and the design of the initials, with their recessed frames and combination of acanthus and fish-scale motifs, suggest an origin in Augsburg or Nuremberg during the second decade of the sixteenth century. The two images of St Bernard and the possible inclusion of the feast ‘In exaltatione sancte corone Domini’ (Marlay cutting Fl 8c) suggest that the initials belonged to a Cistercian Gradual. Two cuttings now in London, Wallace Collection, M.340 and M.341 may have come from the same manuscript.
Documentation:
Wormald, F.. Giles, P.M.. 1982. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection).England: Cambridge University Pressp. 98 - 100
Alexander, J.J.G.. 1980. Catalogue of Cuttings from Illuminated Manuscripts in the Wallace Collection.London:
cat. nos. 6 - 7
Accession:
Object Number: Marlay cutting Fl. 7a
(Manuscripts and Printed Books)
(record id: 170684; input: 2010-02-01; modified: 2012-08-30)
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